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example of Polish literature

...Latin was at first the only literary language of Poland, and early works included saints’ lives, annals, and chronicles written by monks and priests. The most important of these works are the
Chronicon, which was compiled about 1113 by a Benedictine known only as Gallus Anonymous, and the
Annales seu cronicae incliti regni Poloniae, brought up to 1480 by Jan...